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By Mark Bahnisch on September 25, 2009
On Saturday, I penned some thoughts on the series in The Australian on the Australian left, riffing off the first article by Tim Soutphommasane. Among other things, I queried the practice of addressing a discourse about left politics to the [...]
Posted in Australiana, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, Australian culture, classical liberalism, Crikey, Guy Rundle, History, ideology, Julia Gillard, labor party, labourism, political sociology, political theory, Politics, social democracy, Sociology, The Australian, Tim Soutphommasane, What's Left |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 20, 2009
In today’s Crikey, Guy Rundle segues from the latest round of “Nats should leave the Coalition” talk (refracted, this time, if The Australian is to be believed, predictably through the Malcolm Turnbull leadership prism) to a consideration of the impact of environmental crisis on rural voters.
Posted in Activism, Australiana, Culture, Environment, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Australian culture, Australian Greens, Coalition, Culture, greens, Guy Rundle, historical sociology, ideology, left, Nationals, political culture, Queensland Greens, right, rural, rural sociology, Sociology, urban |
By Guest Poster on February 2, 2009
Cross-posted from Marcus’ blog. From my small air conditioned bubble in a sweltering Melbourne the abstract economic gloom of stock shocks and far away corporate collapses is getting less and less abstract with each passing day. Anecdotal reports of jobs [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Melbourne, Sociology | Tagged arts, Australian culture, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, DIY, economic cycle, innovation, laneways, Marcus Westbury, Melbourne, Newcastle, recession, unemployment |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 1, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/746381286_2c6c08ecaa.jpg" Image of the State Library of Victoria from avlxyz at flickr reproduced under a creative commons licence. One thing I used to notice when I used to buy newspapers was that around this time of year “culture” steps [...]
Posted in Activism, Australiana, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Government, Media, Policy, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Activism, Australian culture, Barry Saunders, citizen journalism, cultural sociology, cultural studies, democracy, e democracy, internet, journalism, margaret simons, media studies, New Matilda, new media, newspapers, openness, Pew Centre, political sociology, public participation, public sphere, sally young, social media, Sociology, State of the Cultural Nation |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 28, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mark-davis.jpg" align=left At one stage, having read a lecture by Mark Davis in Overland, I thought his new book was going to be an update of Gangland. I’ve just started reading The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s [...]
Posted in Anzac Day, Australiana, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Ethics, History, Indigenous, Markets, Media, Nationalism, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged 2007 federal election, ALP, Australian culture, Australian history, Australian nationalism, Australian studies, battle of ideas, Book review, Culture Wars, egalitarianism, fair go, Gangland, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Mark Davis, Melbourne University Press, neoliberalism, Nettie Palmer, political culture, political ideologies, politics & government, Rudd government, social democracy, sociology of culture, The Land of Plenty, Writings |
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